Loving Michael Since Birth

The Line Has Been Crossed. Take Action IMMEDIATELY

I received a load of emails this weekend notifying me of the outrageousness that the talking tabloid heads have taken the coverage of this trial. The following majority of them convey this overall message:

On Tuesday, October 11, 2011, during court proceedings, prosecutors in the Conrad Murray trial showed the jury Michael Jackson’s autopsy photograph. Initially, HLN’s Jane Velez Mitchell said, on air, that HLN would not be showing the photograph. Later that afternoon, HLN’s Vinnie Politan showed the photograph. For the next two days, it was shown many times for up to 11 seconds each time. Scott Safon as Chief Executive of HLN is chiefly responsible for this decision.

It has since been splashed across the Internet and tabloid front pages and tabloid sites such as TMZ and Daily Beast. Diane Dimond even featured it in one of her articles at the Daily Beast. A very sick-minded individual accessed the photograph on the TMZ website and sent multiple tweets which included the photograph’s TMZ link along with hate speech to Michael Jackson’s children.

It is a measure of how far our culture has slipped that it appears to be acceptable to show an autopsy photo of a much loved public figure on international television. Marilyn Monroe, Elvis, Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, Princess Diana, and Dale Earnhardt were not shown this indignity. Not even Osama Bin Laden’s body was paraded past the public in this way. Why should it be acceptable that Michael Jackson’s family, friends, and fans should have to endure this outrage for nothing more than ratings? A new threshold has been crossed that tramples human dignity and decency–standards towards the dead that have been respected for millennia.

THIS IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF INDECENCY!

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent United States government agency established by the Communications Act of 1934. It is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable. We are asking you to express your outrage at this act of indecency on international television by contacting them with your complaint. Ask the FCC to send a message loud and clear to HLN that they will get their license revoked for this kind of “decision” and that it is UNJUSTIFIABLE.

If you reside in the United States, you may contact the FCC at the following link. At the website, you will be directed to a complaint form. You may also express your disgust via e-mail or phone. The same page will give you access to their e-mail address and phone.

For those of you outside of the United States, you can choose, instead of filling in the online form at the FCC, to send an email telling the FCC that even overseas the U.S. broadcast of the photo has upset many people with our TV system here or give them a call. If you use the form, you may need to pose as being located in the U.S. Here are some zip codes you can use. The link is the same whether inside or outside the U.S.

29455

10708

10021

92009

20165

30907

91360

23233

20817

The showing of the photograph outside a court of law is OUTRAGEOUS, UNJUSTIFIED and DISRESPECTFUL.

I strongly urge all of you to take action immediately. Time is of the essence, and the line of human decency has been crossed.